[148] Padre Garucci, S. J., has published an exhaustive monograph on this now celebrated "Graffito Blasphemo." Roma, 1857.
[149] The Palace of Nero is described in Tacitus, Ann. xv. 42, and Suetonius, Ner. 31.
[150] Septimius Severus was born A.D. 146, near Leptis in Africa. Statius addresses a poem to one of his ancestors, Sept. Severus of Leptis.
[151] Martial, xii. Ep. 75.
[152] Dion Cass. Commod.
[153] Lamprid. Elagab. 8.
[154] Cassiod. vii. 5.
[155] Dyer's Rome, p. 222.
[156] Ampère, Hist. Rom. iv. 460.
[157] Trebellius Pollio.